"Asian churches in the United States are discovering that despite their spec­tacular
growth they are simultane­ously losing their children.At an alarming rate, many young believers who
have grown up in these Asian congrega­tions are now choosing to leave not only
their home churches, but possibly their Christian faith as well.

"In many respects, the
Asian church in the United States has been hugely success­ful since the mid-1960s,
when immigra­tion restrictions were dramatically relaxed.

"The surge in Asian
immigration led to an explosion of new churches.But the flip side of this success story has
been a silent exodus of church-raised young people who find their immigrant
church­es irrelevant, culturally stifling, and ill equipped to develop them
spiritually for life in the multicultural 1990s."

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